History of the Iron, Steel, Tinplate and other Trades of Wales; with descriptive sketches of the land and the people during the great industrial era under review

Notes:

Contains very many short chapters focusing especially on families and key personalities involved the evolution of the industries some of which are: 'Crawshay family'; 'Homfrays of Penydarren'; 'Anthony Bacon and the beginnings of Cyfarthfa'; 'Beginnings of Dowlais'; 'Sir John Guest MP, the iron king'; 'Sir John Josiah Guest Bart'; 'Richard Fothergill as MP'; 'Tredegar'; 'Rhymney Works'; 'Ebbw Vale'; 'Homfrays, Formans and Alderman Thompson of Penydarren'; 'Penydarren Works'; 'Plymouth Iron Works and the Hill family'; 'Abernant Works'; 'Cyfarthfa after the death of William Crawshay'; 'Maesteg Works and neighbourhood'; etc